Welcome to the list. I’m several raspberry pis in now:) having a pile of 3B
and some new 4B models.
Great little devices. Welcome to the list and enjoy the new pi.
On Mar 17, 2020, at 6:41 PM, Jessica <jelynnar.lists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello. My name is Jessica.
My computer experiences are many.
I have played around with dos, linux, windows, mac, ios, android, chromebook
and maybe others.
I mostly dabbled.
I don't like windows much. And recently got very annoyed with a failing
chromebook.
I purchased a mini pc and put debian on it. While doing this I found the WIFI
adapter internally was not compatible with linux.
This led me on a search for a linux friendly adapter. And that led me to
Raspberry PI. I never heard of Raspberry PI before.
I did a lot of research and decided to start with a raspberry pi 3 b plus.
I had most items here so I just got a case for it and of course a micro SD
card.
I got Raspbian up and running almost immediately. I also tried freebsd. But I
am still having trouble setting up the WIFI adapters on FREEBSD so I left
that alone for now as its a little over my head.
Now the raspberry PI has become my main computer. I know some people don't
like that. But I love the size of the PI. The case fan isn't all that
annoying to me and things work fine. For my purposes.
I am totally blind so as far as I am concerned soldering is out of the
question. I don't know if I can do projects without soldering or not. I am
still pretty new to the PI.
In any case. I am so glad to be back in the command line mode after years of
not being.
My current hardware is the raspberry pi, the mini pc (not currently running
as I prefer the pi), my iphone 10 and my orbit reader 20 braille display.
Our house is full of echo devices. Family hesitated on using them at first.
But the echo shows has really increased their interest. One of them is almost
always reading the screen and asking it questions. I just use an old echo dot.
I do have a question though. I am currently running raspbian. I mainly chose
this as I am new to raspberry PI ETC.
I did read some of the early list emails so I am aware and thank all those
who got speech working whatever you did.
However. Espeakup with raspbian kind of is laggy on me. IE if I hit control
or insert or just another navigation key to move to the next text I have to
wait for the text reading to finish.
On debian espeakup crashed alot where I had to restart it. On here it has not
crashed. But if there is a way to make espeakup a little bit more responsive
to key presses that would be great.
I just was wondering if anyone else experiences this or has experienced this
and if there is a fix for it.
It doesn't do it on the mini pc running arch or debian linux. So I don't know
if this is just a thing with raspbian or the raspberry pi. Or whatever.
As I said though. On the raspberry espeakup doesn't crash. Whereas on the
debian or arch linux running on mini pc if I ran into just one thing wrong I
would have to restart brltty or espeakup several times.
So I can live with this. But it does slow me down a bit.
Thank you for your time. And for a good list.
Jessica
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